# @seed on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KoEXkhrZ0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34247269-seed-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/44dff0d843.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-10-28T14:58:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

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💩Citizen scientists, we need your help. 💩⁠⠀
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We have a dozen words for our shit and a thousand expressions using it, but somehow we still don't (really) know it. And some 70 million Americans are quietly living with digestive disorders and shitty shit. For some reason, we find poop gross, embarrassing, weird. But, until we learn the language to talk about it, the people who need care the most won't get it. It's time for us to break taboos and destigmatize poop.⁠⠀
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Today, we launch Citizen Science 1.0, in partnership with @auggihealth, to build the world's first (and largest) crowdsourced poop image database.⁠⠀
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Yes, really. With a large enough dataset, we'll be able to train an AI to learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy poop, automate symptom tracking and analysis, and change the future of gut health and patient care.⁠⠀
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Auggi has already begun training with 36,000 clay models of poop (play-doh!), but now it's time to get real—with real images of real poop from real humans.⁠⠀
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Here's where you come in. It's easy: before you flush (and before you wipe 🧻), take a photo 📸of your poop and upload it to seed.com/poop ⬆️(it's completely anonymous).⁠⠀
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We dare you to #GIVEASHIT for science¹.⁠⠀
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¹ After a week of fires, we woke up this morning to the news of another massive one raging through the Getty area. As thousands in our own backyard face evacuation, we struggled about whether to launch this campaign. While poop has very little to do with climate change, it's further reiteration of our mission to protect and empower science, and collectively move it forward. Let's give a shit about our poop, our waste, our planet, our home. Hurting for our friends, family, neighbors, community; and so grateful for the heroism of our firefighters and first responders. Be safe, Los Angeles. 💛

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